“I don’t understand a thing about this world: about people, the and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.” Discuss what Charlies learns over the summer of 1965.

The novel ‘Jasper Jones’ by Craig Silvery is a coming of age novel, which takes place in the small rural town of Corrigan, in Western Australia. The protagonist, Charlie Bucktin discovers numerous things over the course of the summer which changes his view of the world entirely. After being led to the hanging body of Laura Wishart by the town outcast Jasper Jones, it is the first stage of the loss of his innocence. He begins to realise and question the harsh reality of everything around him, how people like him are capable of dreadful evils and the racial prejudice in which Corrigan embraces. During the course of the novel Charlie learns the harsh reality of life, that everything is not black and white as he had previously believed. His life is turned upside down when Jasper leads him to the body of Laura Wishart. ‘I don’t know. I don’t know what I think.’ [pg 15] Charlie is torn between helping Jasper find out who murdered her as well as disposing of her body or telling others, including the police. Charlie decides to trust Jasper in a situation where no one else in Corrigan would. He comes to the conclusion that they would immediately suspect and arrest Jasper without a proper investigation or a second thought. ‘Charlie. There’ll be a fucken court date before there’s a funeral.’[pg 23] Another harsh reality is when Charlie uncovers the truth about his parents, whom he had previously thought highly of. Finding his mother in a car drunk, fooling around with another man, who when confronted leaves Charlie, his father and Corrigan behind the next day. As well as unveiling the fact that his father knew something was happening to Laura but said nothing of it to anyone. ‘I’ve been betrayed by both my parents in a single night.’ [pg...

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by Eugene O’Neill
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...November, 2011,ISSN- 0975-3486.RNI : RAJBIL 2009/30097,VOL-III * ISSUE 26
Research Paper—English
O'Neill's The Emperor Jones
Tragedy of the "Silver Bullet"
November, 2011
* N. Veena
* Ph.D. Scholar , Kakatiya University, Warangal. A.P.
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), recipient of Nobel Prize rors and obsessions of Brutus Jones. The expressionfor literature, is the creator of serious American drama. ists present the internal actions, dreams, visions, aspiHis tragedies strike at the very root of the sickness of rations and desires like the technique of interior monotoday. His understanding of tragedy stemmed from his logue. They give words to unseen voices to express the
reading of Nietzsche. The cause of suffering of mod- secret thoughts of a man's mind.
ern man is his loss of faith in God.
Jones, the protagonist, is the victim of his
In O'Neill's plays, the Greek concept of the inner sense of guilt. He knows that he is accountable
fall through the pride is endorsed by the psychological for the cruelty with which he ruled the islanders. The
theory of Freud and Jung. His protagonists consider revenge by the natives is therefore inevitable. This
themselves the sole arbiters of their own destiny.
arouses Jones' fear. The natives have already plotted
They pass through the agonizing conflict against him and Jones must now flee for life. Jones has
between the conscious and the...

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JONES, Brutus. He is the main character. "A tall, powerfully built negro of middle age. His features are typically negroid, yet there is . . . an underlying strength of will, a hardy, self-reliant confidence in himself that inspires respect." He has an air of intelligence, yet at the same time he is "shrewd, suspicious, evasive." He wears a somewhat garish uniform of a pale blue coat, "sprayed with buttons" and covered with gold braid, and red trousers, with a light blue stripe at the side; he sports patent leather boots with spurs, and carries a pearl-handled revolver in his belt. Nonetheless, he still projects an air of dignity rather than the merely ridiculous.
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